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  • Collapse

    The Fall of the Soviet Union

    A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demiseIn 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Between East and West

    Across the Borderlands of Europe

    In 1991, Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag, Iron Curtain and Red Famine, took a three-month road trip through the borderlands between the fallen Soviet Union and Europe—lands that became Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Moldova. In her iconic reportage, which has become indispensable history, she captures the harrowing story of a region that is once again threatened by Russia ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • The Ottoman Empire

    Ancient Empires, #1

    by History Nerds ...
    Series Book 1 - Ancient Empires
    Step into the enigmatic world of "The Ottoman Empire" a compelling exploration of the rise, zenith, and eventual decline of one of the most formidable empires in history. This meticulously researched account takes readers on a captivating journey through the annals of time, unraveling the intricate tapestry of a civilization that spanned over six centuries.From the humble beginnings of Osman I to ... Read more

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  • The Pity of War

    Explaining World War I

    From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War IThe Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a Continental conflict into a world war, which it then badly mishandled, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • To End a War

    The Conflict in Yugoslavia--America's Inside Story--Negotiating with Milosevic

    When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiator in late 1995, he took a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the height of the war, that Holbrooke's mission would succeed. The odds were strongly against it.As passionate as he was controversial, Holbrooke believed that the only way to bring peace to the Balkans ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Ottomans

    Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs

    This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West.The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans’ multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe’s heart. Indeed, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $16.99 USD

  • The White Sniper

    Simo Häyhä

    The remarkable story of the Finnish marksman nicknamed “White Death” by the Red Army for his record number of confirmed kills.Simo Häyhä is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland from 1939 to 1940, he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a record that still stands today.A man of action who spoke very little, Simo Häyhä was hugely respected ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood in the Forest

    The End of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket

    by Vincent Hunt ...
    With original research and interviews with survivors, a journalist reveals the brutal yet forgotten battles in Latvia during the final months of WWII.While the eyes of the world were on Hitler’s bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles in the fields and forests of Western Latvia known as the Courland Pocket. Just an hour from the capital Riga, German forces bolstered by ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Germany's Conquest of the Balkans

    Germany's first conquest

    What has happened in former Yugoslavia over the past several years reaches far beyond the boundaries of that region. It is so shocking that the nations of this world would be paralyzed with fear if they truly understood! Shamefully, America is its chief architect.In this booklet:• The First Military Victim of World War III• How German Fascism Conquered Kosovo• German-led EU Conquers Former ... Read more

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  • July 1914

    Countdown to War

    by Sean McMeekin ...
    When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand's own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, "It is God's will." Certainly, there was nothing to suggest that the episode would lead to conflict -- much less a world war of such massive and horrific proportions ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Short Border Handbook

    A Journey Through the Immigrant's Labyrinth

    Translated by Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife ...
    A unique perspective on being an immigrant - Kapllani, who left Albania in 1991 to make his home in Greece, diagnoses the malaise of "border syndrome" by relating key episodes in his own experience and that of those migrants who accompanied him.A wonderful, memorable cast of characters: the hapless villager trying unsuccessfully to get through an automatic door for the first time, two truck ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • They Did Not Have Horns: The Viking Kings of Norway

    This popular history of the Norwegian Viking period features lively accounts of the Kings and their families along with illustrations. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Woman in Amber

    Healing the Trauma of War and Exile

    by Agate Nesaule ...
    American Book Award Winner: A “stunning” memoir of surviving WWII Latvia—and the long journey to healing that followed (The New York Times Book Review).“A heartbreaking yet inspiring memoir of tragedy and healing,” A Woman in Amber tells the story of how the occupation of Latvia during World War II affected a woman’s relationship with her mother and husband for years to come (Tim O’Brien). Though ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Litva: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

    A Selection from Vanished Kingdoms (Penguin Tracks)

    by Norman Davies ...
    The fascinating history of a Baltic empire’s dominance and decline—excerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Davies’s Vanished KingdomsVanished Kingdoms introduces readers to once-powerful European empires that have left scant traces on the modern map. In this excerpt from his widely acclaimed book, Norman Davies tells the ill-fated story of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Founded in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Northern Crusades

    The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but they were also more successful: vast new territories became and remain Christian, such as Finland, Estonia and Prussia. Newly revised in the light of the recent developments in Baltic and Northern medieval research, this authoritative overview provides a balanced and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Gustavus Adolphus

    A History of the Art of War from Its Revival After the Middle Ages to the End of the Spanish Succession War, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Swede

    A grand sweeping military history of the “pike and shot” era, with a particular emphasis on the Thirty Years’ War in Europe (1618–1648). Originally published in two volumes, the first covers the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and known as “The Lion of the North” by his many opponents. Born into an era of constant warfare, he became king at 17, transformed the Army of Sweden into the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police

    By Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police

    Edited by Samuel Schalkowsky ...
    **“Remarkable . . . provides a graphic and unparalleled description of the conditions under which the Jews of Kaunas tried to live and survive.” —**The ForwardAs a force that had to serve two masters, both the Jewish population of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania and its German occupiers, the Kovno Jewish ghetto police walked a fine line between helping Jews survive and meeting Nazi orders. In 1942 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out of Thin Air

    A True Story of Impossible Murder in Iceland

    In 1974, two men vanished without a trace under suspicious circumstances, shocking the people of Iceland, where serious crime is almost nonexistent. More than a year later, there seemed to be a breakthrough when a small-time crook named Erla Bolladottir described a dream to police that they interpreted as a sign of trauma related to the men's disappearance.After lengthy interrogations, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • East Central Europe and Communism

    Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943–1991

    Series series Routledge Open History
    The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable to make significant ... Read more

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  • Leaves from a Russian Diary—and Thirty Years After [Enlarged Edition]

    The reminiscences of a fiercely anti-Communist Petrograd professor, Pitirim A. Sorokin—from the February Revolution right through to his departure from Russia in September 1922.This is the enlarged edition published almost 30 years after the first 1924 publication and contains the additional section, “Thirty Years After,” in which the author describes how the Revolution that has since come of age ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Baltic

    by Alan Palmer ...
    Alan Palmer traces the history of the Baltic region from its early Viking days and its time under the Byzantine Empire through its medieval prime when the Baltic Sea served as one of Europe’s central trading grounds. Palmer addresses both the strong nationalist sentiments that have driven Baltic culture and the early attempts at Baltic unification by Sweden and Russia. The Baltic also dissects the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of Lithuania to 1569: Centennial Edition (19212021)

    Why did Lithuania’s dictator in the 1920s (the pro-Nazi Augustinas Voldemaras) kick the author out of the country for writing this seemingly harmless book? What was the significance of the fact that the author’s father tutored a teenage Lenin while both were in law school in Russia? And how was this ground-breaking equivalent of “Lithuanian History for Dummies” about a century ahead of its time? ... Read more

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  • Battleground Prussia

    The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944–45

    by Prit Buttar ...
    An engrossing history of the last year of the Second World War, charting the battles fought between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazis across German soil.The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler's regime were like no other in the Second World War. The Soviet Army's intent to take revenge for the horror that the Nazis had wreaked on ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Stormtrooper on the Eastern Front

    Fighting with Hitler's Latvian SS

    The memoir of a reluctant soldier coerced into military service by the Nazis and driven from his homeland by the Russians.Following the conquest of his native Latvia by the Nazis, Mintauts Blosfelds was given the stark choice: service in the SS or forced labor in a slave camp. So he “volunteered” to fight for the Nazis.In this memoir he describes his training and how he became an instructor before ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus